Message-Id: <200401241823.i0OINqme029964@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request: I/O request recording 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:10:27 +0100."
             <20040124181026.GA22100@codeblau.de> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
References: <20040124181026.GA22100@codeblau.de>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:10:27 +0100, Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>  said:
> I would like to have a user space program that I could run while I cold
> start KDE.  The program would then record which I/O pages were read in
> which order.  The output of that program could then be used to pre-cache
> all those pages, but in an order that reduces disk head movement.
> Demand Loading unfortunately produces lots of random page I/O scattered
> all over the disk.

The Fedora version of the kernel-utils RPM includes /usr/sbin/readahead, which
gets launched like this:

start() {
    echo -n $"Starting background readahead: "
    /usr/sbin/readahead /usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/48x48/mimetypes/* &
    /usr/sbin/readahead /usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/24x24/stock/* &
    /usr/sbin/readahead /usr/share/applications/* &
    /usr/sbin/readahead `cat /etc/readahead.files` &
}

So given that program, you could simpy strace your KDE stuff, grep out all the
open calls and the filenames, stick them in /etc/readahead.files, and be done.

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